A Sudden Sky

A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces between things - always a gap, a failed connection, like radio waves caught in the sky. I REFUSE to accept

the spine's dictated script

which at the precise moment

lets itself dissolve, lets itself be inserted

as a footnote of terror in the great law

that has condemned us to carry

the quake's loosening when the alibi doesn't hold

and the body surrenders itself

when dawn cleans up

among the stars Gernes has called poetry "a resistance movement," explaining "A poem gives us the possibility of hearing our own voices. While the media offer us the world in small pieces, which are experienced as chaos, poetry seeks connections."